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Raphaël Hertzog writes about the Condorcet voting system that we use in Debian. He then goes on to consider whether we could use the system to help us elsewhere - could we track MIA developers by checking their voting records? This strikes a chord with another idea I've heard recently: make voting in the DPL election mandatory for active DDs.

I expect that even suggesting such a thing may appal some of us - forcing volunteer DDs to do anything is not likely to be popular, and I admit I have misgivings about it myself on that front. However, I can also see the attraction of the idea. The DPL election is a very(!) well publicised event that happens regularly every year, and is something that most DDs are likely to care about. Asking the project secretary after the polls close for a list of DDs that have not voted might be a good way of picking up on those who have stopped paying attention to Debian issues.

Comments? :-)

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Re: Using votes to help detect MIA Debian developers?
EddyP wrote on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:03

I think that using the voting to detect MIA DDs is a great idea.

If one does not want to vote for any, just choose "none of the above"

I have seen too many bugs not closed due to MIA DDs which were thought to be active with NMUs present.

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